1980 Olympic Triple Jump

From the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow

The three medalist were:

Jaak Uudmäe (USSR) 56'11" - Gold
Viktor Saneyev (USSR) 56'6.75" - Silver
João de Oliveira (BRA) 56'6" - Bronze

Great Slo-mo Technique video on two of the Jumps. de Oliveira was the world record holder at the time with a jump of 58'8.25" and Saneyev was attempting to win his fourth consecutive gold medal after having won in '68 '72, 76, to match the great Al Oerter.

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[JAVMAN83]

This competition, along with the men's javelin, were examples of the Soviet authorities at their worst in fixing the competition in favor of local favorites. João de Oliveira (Brazil) & Ian Connor (Australia) should have won gold & silver (which order I don't remember). 35 year old Saneyev was 4th in reality.

[broadjumper1]

@JAVMAN83 - There's no doubt there were serious irregularities and no one can say what Ian Campbell's position might have been, 9 fouls out of their 12 jumps is highly suspect. And yes, Dainis Kula also got a favorable call in the Javelin

[mrvishal1000]

u guys get political even in sports, dum fools.....

[broadjumper1]

@susspuss - If you look at he history of the games, especially the Summer games, the hosting nation generally does well and quite often wins the most medals. And I'm sure the Soviet system was very political during the cold war era. The Russians always used sports as a political tool to tout the benefits of their communist system. Read David Maraniss' Rome 1960, The Games That Changed the World.

Uudmäe & de Oliveira hit their best jumps round # 3, Saneyev in round 6.

[susspuss]

@broadjumper1 naah look at chinese and the Beijing Olympics... they will get better results... or i don't know... i don't want know what their future is...

the thing with Moscow and other olympics in case of soviet athletes was, that not always the best ones could participate, actually i have to say, if there was heavy cheating, i wonder, how could they let Uudmäe win, he's estonian... maybe they just looked, alright, still a soviet one, he's OK to win...

[broadjumper1]

@susspuss - First off, I didn't equate them. That's not possible since the Sochi games have yet to be held. And I'm not suggesting there WILL be cheating in Sochi, but I'm fairly certain there WILL be accusations of cheating and partiality, especially since Putin and Medvedev have demanded "better" results after Russia's worst showing ever.

But yes, there have been reports that things aren't going well because of corruption and incompetence. These games could be an expensive disaster...

[susspuss]

@broadjumper1

i think its a little bit unfair to equal Moscow and Sochi because of the cheating issues, Sochi's biggest problem is poor organising...

[broadjumper1]

@quasiphatpaul - how original.....I'll bet you spent hours coming up with such clever comments...loser.

[broadjumper1]

Yeah, there were lots of accusations. Guess where the next Olympic winter games are being held?

Sochi, Russia.

Hold on to your hats folks...

[mschneider18xx]

The 1980 Moscow summer Olympics were the biggest cheat-fest in history; they literally stole eight gold medals by red-flagging better jumps and throws, and by cheating in the relays.

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